Difficulty connecting to printer attached to Windows XP computer

I'm trying to connect over the network to a printer which is attached to one of my computers running Windows XP SP2. I opened the Printer Setup Utility and clicked "Add", then "More Printers" I selected "Windows Printing", and "Network Neighborbood", but my workgroup is not appearing. The default workgroup "Workgroup" appears, but my computers are all using the workgroup "MSHOME". I took a screenshot:
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c158/palehose/printers.png
Anyone know what might be causing this? I'm using a MacBook Pro 1.83 GHz running OSX 10.4.6.

Are you sure? I was looking at the summary for this program and it appears to be something that allows a PC to find printers connected to Macs:
With Bonjour for Windows, your PC can easily discover printers, web servers, and the many other devices that support Bonjour service discovery.
I need to do just the opposite.

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